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About David Black
I believe that my winning percentage is extremely high due to both experience and efficiency - the ability to comprehend the totality of the matter from a very early stage. My analytical abilities are enhanced by my education in English literature and the classics of Greek and Roman mythology. My 20-year committed yoga practice also informs my work. My deep knowledge of the principles and philosophies of this Eastern tradition have substantially increased my dispute resolution abilities.
David Black has been litigating cases for forty-five years. He currently serves as of counsel to Sommers Schwartz, where he has engineered successful resolution of major legal and accounting malpractice actions in which he has obtained a number of seven figure settlements and verdicts. David is a highly-respected "lawyer's lawyer," who receives much of his caseload through referrals by other attorneys.
He has resolved several accounting and legal malpractice actions resulting in seven figure verdicts and settlements. His practice areas include: alternative dispute resolution, breach of contract, business torts, corporate and partnership disputes, debtor-creditor work and fraud, legal and accounting malpractice and securities. David enjoys both the challenges of problem solving and the adversary process when successfully negotiating disputes.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Sommers Schwartz PC
These results are credited to Sommers Schwartz PC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A class settlement with Michigan Pain Specialists resolved claims of 311 patients and survivors of the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak traced to contaminated steroid injections. It was reached in Livingston County Circuit Court in March 2016. The $10.5 million is a single class figure that the sources do not itemise by patient. Robert B. Sickels of Sommers Schwartz PC sat on the three-attorney plaintiffs' steering committee for Michigan.
After two federal jury verdicts found that Frankenmuth violated the Loesel family's equal-protection rights by passing a zoning ordinance designed to block a Walmart land sale, the city settled for $3.7 million in November 2014.
On April 25, 2014, a Saginaw County jury returned a $1,612,269 verdict for Debra Cameron and her husband, Hugh, against family physician James V. Bodrie, M.D. The jury found he failed to pursue a cardiac workup despite months of symptoms and a chest X-ray showing an enlarged heart, and that Ms. Cameron suffered a major heart attack days later. The award included $262,268.86 in medical expenses, with the rest for non-economic damages, and the vote was 6-2. Michigan's 2014 cap on non-economic damages in malpractice cases limits that portion to $440,200, so the most that could stand was about $702,469, and no appeal was filed.
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